The project involvesthe development ofUnmanned Aircraft Vehicles, both remotely piloted and autopiloted,whose architecture ischaracterized by a wing-box systemknown asPrandtlPlane. Theresearch isconducted jointly byPITOM and SkyBoxEngineering, a spin-offcompanyof the University ofPisa,with the supportof the Department ofCivil and Industrial Engineeringfrom the University ofPisa. The focus of the reseacrh activity is to design and realizea completely autonomous PrandtlPlane aircraft. Due to itsinnovative aerodynamiccharacteristics, Prandtlplane aircaft isan excellentplatform for the installationofelectro-optical sensors. The double wing, in fact, givesgreater stabilityandhigher dampingof vibrations w.r.t.conventional aircraft, while increasingsafetyof flight atlow speed.Prandtlplane UAV can be deployed for a great variety of applications: remote sensing andterritory observation (eg. in case of environmental disasters), environmental monitoring, supportin police operations,fire fighting, terrestrial traffic control and marineborder patrol,maintenanceof power lines,pipelines,etc.